ANNUAL RE 
dard that flies in the midst of our 
armies, that we ought all to hasten, 
and rally like brothers, to defend 
the cause of freedom against ty- 
ranny. 
Given in the council of the de- 
partment of Paris, the 23d June, 
1792, and in the 4th year of 
liberty. 
(Signed) 
La Rocueroucautt, Pres. 
Buonpext, Secretary. 
212 
Letter from the King to the National 
Assembly, July 4. 
4th Year of Liberty. 
“ Gentlemen, 
‘* WE approach the famous epoch 
at which the French are going to 
commemorate, in all parts of the 
kingdom,acompact of alliance con- 
tracted on the altar of the coun- 
try on the lith of July, 1790. 
The law forbids all particular fede- 
rations; it allows only an annual 
renewal of the federative compact 
in the chief town of each district. 
But we have in our power a mea- 
sure which, without the least viola- 
tion of the letter of the law, seems 
to me adapted to the grand events 
that everywhere present themselves. 
When a great nation wages war 
abroad in defence of liberty, then 
it is that she feels most strongly the 
necessity of peace at home ; when 
all the intestine dissensions seem to 
coincide with the foreign war, when 
wicked men are striving to excite 
troubles, the peaceable citizens 
stand in need of encouragement. 
We must prove to the armies on 
our frontiers, that they are fighting 
in reality for the peace and the li- 
berty of their country. I am of 
opinion, gentlemen, that we can- 
not give them a surer pledge of 
GISTER, 1792. 
this, than the union of the two 
constituted powers, renewing on 
the 14th of July, round the altar 
of our country, the same resolution, 
to live free, or die. ; 
A great number of Frenchmen 
are collecting from all the depart- 
ments. They think that they shall 
double their force and their cou- 
rage, if, on the eve of their de- 
parture for the frontiers, they shall 
be admitted to celebrate the anni- 
versary of the federation with the 
citizens of Paris. I express to you 
my desire of going into the midst 
of you to receive their oaths, and 
to prove to the evil-disposed, who 
seek to ruin the country by divid- 
ing us, that we are animated by 
but one and the same spirit—that 
of the constitution; and that if we 
are compelled to war, it is princi- 
pally by internal peace that we wish 
to prepare and assure our victories. 
f (Signed) Lovts. 
(Countersigned) Dersoty. 
Notification to the Powers of Europe 
Jrom the King of the French. 
THE King of the French be- 
ing informed that persons still con- 
tinue to make use of his name to 
propose negotiations with foreign 
courts, to make loans, and even le- 
vies of foreign troops, and being 
again desirous of consecrating, ina 
solemn manner, his attachment to 
the constitution, which he freely 
accepted, and which he has sworn 
to defend, disavows all declarations, 
protestations, negotiations with fo- 
reign courts, loans, levies of foreign 
troops, purchases of arms, warlike 
stores, and others; and generally 
all acts, public and private, made 
in his name by Louis-Stanislaus- 
Xavier, Charles-Philip, ~Louis-Jo- 
seph, and Louis-Anthony-Henry, 
French 
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